I knew we were silly to agree to go camping when the forecast said it would snow. Granted we were at a cabin that had electricity and propane heat. However, you have to get to the cabin before you can enjoy those amenities. And of course once we got to the cabin I did enjoy myself (even though there was snow on the ground.) We were able to get out of Wendover early enough that we met up with Spencer's family for the trip down. Which it is a very good thing that we did. Not only did we not know how to get to the cabin, we would have never actually made it up to the cabin on our own.
All the paved roads were great. There was no snow. It was wet, but it was still good. We turned off to actually go up to the cabin itself and that is a dirt road. Because it wasn't paved the snow had stuck when it had fallen and it looked like there were at least six inches. I was at the end of the caravan of three cars and so I was trying to stay up with the other three cars so that if they made a turn off the main road I wouldn't be lost. So I came up to a corner too fast and started to slide when hit the brakes. Knowing that there wasn't anything that I could do I let off the brakes and threw my hands up and just slid off the road. Before we came to a complete stop I used the momentum of the car to get us back onto the road and we went on our way. Things going good until we started getting closer to the cabin. The other car going up was a rear wheel drive, which doesn't do well on snow pack. (There are some people who would disagree with me on this, but in my experience this is true.) They got stuck and because we were following we also ended up getting stuck as well. Luckily Spencer's dad did have his 4x4 truck. They got the first car pulled to where they were able to go on. The truck than started back down the road after our car, but by backing down a little we were able to get to a part of the road that was not snow pack so we were able to go. We made it almost all the way to the cabin before we got into trouble again. The first car got stuck again and because we were coming up on it last we also ended up getting stuck and so we just parked the car in the driveway of another cabin hoping that we wouldn't be in anyones way.
So the title makes it sound like the whole weekend was a bummer, but in truth I had a lot of fun. I will have more tomorrow along with pictures.
All the paved roads were great. There was no snow. It was wet, but it was still good. We turned off to actually go up to the cabin itself and that is a dirt road. Because it wasn't paved the snow had stuck when it had fallen and it looked like there were at least six inches. I was at the end of the caravan of three cars and so I was trying to stay up with the other three cars so that if they made a turn off the main road I wouldn't be lost. So I came up to a corner too fast and started to slide when hit the brakes. Knowing that there wasn't anything that I could do I let off the brakes and threw my hands up and just slid off the road. Before we came to a complete stop I used the momentum of the car to get us back onto the road and we went on our way. Things going good until we started getting closer to the cabin. The other car going up was a rear wheel drive, which doesn't do well on snow pack. (There are some people who would disagree with me on this, but in my experience this is true.) They got stuck and because we were following we also ended up getting stuck as well. Luckily Spencer's dad did have his 4x4 truck. They got the first car pulled to where they were able to go on. The truck than started back down the road after our car, but by backing down a little we were able to get to a part of the road that was not snow pack so we were able to go. We made it almost all the way to the cabin before we got into trouble again. The first car got stuck again and because we were coming up on it last we also ended up getting stuck and so we just parked the car in the driveway of another cabin hoping that we wouldn't be in anyones way.
So the title makes it sound like the whole weekend was a bummer, but in truth I had a lot of fun. I will have more tomorrow along with pictures.
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